The IRS does not send unsolicited e-mails about a person’s tax account or ask for detailed personal and financial information. Additionally, the IRS never asks people for the PIN numbers, passwords or similar secret access information for their credit card, bank or other financial accounts.

If you receive a suspicious email claiming to be from the IRS, visit this IRS link for details on submitting the suspicious email to the IRS.

Also note that AKAS II never initiates individual emails or broadcast solicitations of any kind directly through its domain here at akasii.com. Those fraudulent emails which have been generated through an unsecure server somewhere in this world may be forwarded to akasii@aol.com for the purpose of criminal prosecution by law enforcement agencies.

AKAS II founder and artist Barbara A. Sloan has written a feature page on artists' taxes for Constance Smith's third edition of Art Marketing 101 . Get your copy of this excellent handbook for visual artists today - and check out Page 52 !

Learn more about AKAS II and find out what the artists have to say about it! Then check out the TaxKit author's own artwork, selected reviews of her work, and her current projects such as Art Across Arkansas and the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts.

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